No Mike Stanton again tonight. Brett Hayes gets his first start behind the dish. And the Marlins play another home opener.

This time, they’re in Houston where the 1-5 Astros play their home opener at Minute Maid Park.

Minute Maid features some new amenities this year, which you can see in this photo:The big one is El Grande, their new scoreboard (upper right of the photo).

The other is the view in this picture, taken from the newly-located press box.

We were a level down, in prime seats behind home plate. Now, we’re one level up where we probably belonged to begin with.

Ever since Minute Maid opened (back when it was called — gulp! — “Enron Park”), writers bragged about the prime press box seats. But we often wondered, too, how much potential money the Astros were missing out on by not renting that areas out to companies.

The Astros finally caught on. Can’t sawy I blame them. And I can’t complain about the new view, either.